Cominella

Cominella
Cominella quoyana quoyana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Buccinidae
Subfamily:	Buccininae
Tribe:	Cominellini
Genus:	Cominella Gray[disambiguation needed ], 1850[1]
Type species
Buccinum testudineum Bruguière, 1789
Species
See text.

Cominella is a genus of carnivorous sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks. ^[2]

Species

Species and subspecies (indented) in the genus Cominella include:^[3]

• Cominella acutinodosa (Reeve, 1846)
• Cominella adspersa (Bruguière, 1789)
• Cominella alertae (Dell, 1956)
• Cominella eburneum (Reeve, 1846)
• Cominella elegantula Powell, 1946
  • Cominella elegantula marlboroughensis Powell, 1946
• Cominella ellisoni Marwick
• Cominella excoriata (Finlay, 1926)
  • Cominella excoriata tolagaensis Ponder, 1968
• Cominella glandiformis (Reeve, 1847)
• Cominella haroldi Powell, 1946
• Cominella lineolata (Lamarck, 1809)
• Cominella maculosa (Martyn, 1784)
• Cominella mirabilis Powell, 1929
  • Cominella mirabilis canturiensis (Dell, 1951)
  • Cominella mirabilis powelli (Fleming, 1948)
• Cominella nassoides (Reeve, 1846)
  • Cominella nassoides consobrina Powell, 1933
  • Cominella nassoides haroldi Powell, 1946
  • Cominella nassoides irdalei (Finlay, 1928)
  • Cominella nassoides nodicincta (Martens, 1878)
  • Cominella nassoides otakauica Powell, 1946
• Cominella norfolkensis (Iredale, 1940)
• Cominella olsoni (Dell, 1956)
• Cominella otagoensis (Finlay, 1927)
• Cominella quoyana A. Adams, 1854
  • Cominella quoyana accuminata Hutton, 1893
  • Cominella quoyana griseicalx Willian, 1978
  • Cominella quoyana necopinata (Finlay, 1930)
• Cominella regalis Willian, 1977
• Cominella tasmanica Tenison - Woods, 1878
• Cominella testudinea (Bruguière, 1789)
• Cominella tolagaensis Ponder, 1968
• Cominella virgata H.& A. Adams, 1853
  • Cominella virgata brookesi Powell, 1952

Species brought into synonymy 

• Cominella acutispira Sowerby, 1821 : synonym of Nucella dubia (Krauss, 1848)
• Cominella albolirata Tenison-Woods, 1879 : synonym of Haustrum vinosum (Lamarck, 1822)
• Cominella elongata Dunker, 1857 : synonym of Afrocominella capensis (Dunker in Philippi, 1844)
• Cominella fuscopicta Turton, 1932 : synonym of Vaughtia fenestrata (Gould, 1860)
• Cominella koperbergi K. Martin, 1933: synonym of Buccinaria jonkeri (Koperberg, 1931)
• Cominella puncturata G.B. Sowerby III, 1886 : synonym of Vaughtia fenestrata (Gould, 1860)
• Cominella retifera K. Martin, 1933 : synonym of Buccinaria jonkeri (Koperberg, 1931)
• Cominella sulcata G.B. Sowerby III, 1892 : synonym of Maorimorpha sulcata (Sowerby III, 1892)
• Cominella unifasciata G.B. Sowerby III, 1886 : synonym of Nucella castanea (Küster, 1886)

References

1. ^ Gray (1850). Figs. Moll. Anim. 4: 72.
2. ^ Bouchet, P. (2011). Cominella Gray, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196902 on 2011-04-19
3. ^ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1

• Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.

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